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Posted by Beano Boy on 13 Dec 2017, 20:44

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Posted by Dad's Army on 13 Dec 2017, 22:42

Looking good as ever Paul, like the barrows also a lot!!!
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Posted by Susofrick on 14 Dec 2017, 08:53

Agree with Remco
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Posted by stenfalk on 14 Dec 2017, 20:19

Agree with Gunnar



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Posted by Beano Boy on 15 Dec 2017, 02:31

Thanks to all you guys for liking my wishful things. BB
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Posted by Peter on 17 Dec 2017, 17:55

Looks fantastic so far Paul. And I don't smell the fish! That's a good thing! ;-) :thumbup:
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Posted by FredG on 20 Dec 2017, 09:49

I'd like to agree with everyone else, even if agreeing is less fun, but I can't find the barrows. :( :eh:

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Posted by Beano Boy on 20 Dec 2017, 10:21

Help FredG. Remco`s comment really referring to barrells not barrows.
At least i knew what he was referring to. BB
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Posted by Peter on 20 Dec 2017, 12:26

Beano Boy wrote:Help FredG. Remco`s comment really referring to barrells not barrows.
At least i knew what he was referring to. BB

Did you really understand him? :shock: A miracle! :mrgreen:
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Posted by FredG on 20 Dec 2017, 12:56

Beano Boy wrote:Help FredG. Remco`s comment really referring to barrells not barrows.
At least i knew what he was referring to. BB


But you knew you hadn't made any barrows. I wasn't sure ;-)
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Posted by Beano Boy on 20 Dec 2017, 21:34

Fruit or fish piled up for sale was often referred to in the old days as a barrow!
That is food for thought. i guess only our friend Remco can verify what he meant. :-D BB
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Posted by Dad's Army on 20 Dec 2017, 21:58

Beano Boy wrote:Fruit or fish piled up for sale was often referred to in the old days as a barrow!
That is food for thought. i guess only our friend Remco can verify what he meant. :-D BB

lol barrells or barrows, sounds the same to me :mrgreen:
My English isn't good, but I guess it's better than your Dutch, whahahaha
But you understood good Paul, really like those euh things :P
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Posted by Peter on 20 Dec 2017, 22:29

Dad's Army wrote:lol barrells or barrows, sounds the same to me :mrgreen:
My English isn't good, but I guess it's better than your Dutch, whahahaha
But you understood good Paul, really like those euh things :P

You almost caused the second English civil war. You must be clear in your comments Remco. Those British don't understand English very well! :mrgreen: :joker:
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Posted by FredG on 21 Dec 2017, 00:49

Beano Boy wrote:Fruit or fish piled up for sale was often referred to in the old days as a barrow!


Not where lived it wasn't unless of course it was piled on a barrow :-D
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Posted by Beano Boy on 21 Dec 2017, 02:20

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:notworthy: Note worthy bow to your interllect FredG. :-D

Hopefully i can now get on with making _ yes cart wheels. BB
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Posted by Beano Boy on 21 Dec 2017, 03:49

:sst: " no not literal ones,but part of bb`s daily work out cart wheeling routine."
:mrgreen: "Look out here he comes."
:thumbup: " He strides it out wearing his straped on Prussian Pickle Helmet, thick rimmed safety glasses,FIGZ T shirt ,striped boxer shorts and his extra thick bouncing winter woolly socks."
Pit`ta patter___ patter__ WHOOOOSH!
:mrgreen: " Along the hallway."
WHOOOOOSH!!
:winky: " Past the kitchen."
;-) " Where Mrs B,is waving,"
WHOOOOOOSH!
:love1: " He`s gathering speed nicely." :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: " Go for it BB!"
WHOOOOOOOOOSH!
:mrgreen: " And as he enters the lounge where the furniture has been pushed up tight against the walls."
:-D " GERONIMOOOOOOOO!
___ :sst: " wow, what a flying side ways leap."
:mrgreen: "It was soon followed by another then the usual,yes you guessed it."
Crash! Bang,Smash! Wallop! Thud_ thud, thud.
:drool: :drool: "With himself ending up like a dazed Donkey wearing a bent Pickle Helmet, sitting and twirling repeatably upon ice."
__ :cowboy: " Yip Pards,you might well laugh,but BB`s, getting better every day at it. "
:sst:" yesterday there were only four outstanding thuds along Mrs B`s fresh polished stone floor."
:coffee: " The ultimate goal: Three good cart wheels should reach the far end of the room with me a stood a standing right side up nose against the wall." BB
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Posted by FredG on 21 Dec 2017, 09:06

Ouch! :P
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Posted by Beano Boy on 04 Jan 2018, 20:43

Problem Solving . :-D " Is Fun."

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I need to add the side building that has a wide open front and i do not wish the slope inside to be seen.
Most certainly the camera would pick that oddity out.

This is how i set about screening it. No fine detailed work needed doing at the time, just the marking and cutting out of the main shape. However as is often found the smillies often wish to over complicate the obvious.

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Using the wall to work out the unusual but simple box shape took only a jiffy to do.

;-) " How long is a jiffy BB?"
:mrgreen: " It`s near double the size of a jif."
:sst: " so the fy is nearly half a jiffy"
;-) "Yes, Thank`s guys."
:thumbup: "Very glad that was explained in near half details"
:coffee: " Well i like to make it simple,although explaining a jiffy in a jiffy is impossible."
:cowboy: "You mean it takes lots of jiffy`s to do that BB ?"
:coffee: " Yip!"
:sst:" so why use them bb?" asked the little button.
:read: " To confuse Peter i bet?"_________"Eh!"

I also marked out the Apex!

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) " BB what`s an Apex?"
:mrgreen: " It`s a something that takes about half a Jiffy to do."

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The two ends with pointed tops soon appeared.
:sst: " and two sections were cut out of one end wall."
:-D " To allow for the walls to slip nicely into place."
:eh: " Well i never!"

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i pinned a mock up,to show everyone.

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The walls will be set in from the end walls creating eventually pleasing angles to view.

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The timber framed sides will have their windows cut out later.

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So the small building with its inner wall ,and the slope extending from it will butt onto the larger sized building without any problems. :mrgreen: " Yah! Seeing is believing."

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So taking them apart i then made the measurements for the large wide open front.........

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..... and a smaller back doorway in the other end wall. There will be two steps leading up from the floor and a good solid door fitted too.

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There it is all cut out.

The upper floor and roof is next to mark out in a few Jiffy`s. i hope you will visit again. BB
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Posted by Susofrick on 05 Jan 2018, 09:22

I will sure visit again! As long as they don't serve that fish again! Looks very promising! Now a question: who's house will be first?
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Posted by Beano Boy on 05 Jan 2018, 16:53

Thank you Gunnar, for the question. :thumbup:

Both the Black-Smithy Forge Master & Pongy Smelling, Bad Tempered Fishmonger will fall upon this production stage of illusion first.
Other buildings are finished and anyone`s guess is who ought to be living in them. It is thus a playful toy town condition.

I must admit some i do not like at all. As clay shrinks and loosens ones efforts fit enough to have them tumble down.

The Forge or Fishmonger will be on one side of a long house of turn or topple over design which sort of fell up in the middle,rather than ever having being built down in the first place.
:mrgreen: "Apex roofs are often like that as the sloping tops are also bottoms."
:eh: :eh: :eh: :eh: :eh: Eh? They all sighed.
This i feel is taking the average Gaul Semi-Detached to a new level of rather inflated idea`s :eh: :eh: :eh: :eh: :eh: "Eh?" They all sighed in question.
Often is the case a statement can evoke emotive reaction.
:sst: " did the gaul`s and roman`s have water mills ,hot air balloons or even windmills ?"__________ :coffee: "Slave powered concrete mixes most certainly." BB
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